NikkiA
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Thank you for your suggestions.
Mark, I can't imagine the touch pad stove! That sounds like a nightmare!
We have a gas stove, and the burners cool down pretty quickly, but the grills on top of them are cast iron. They do not cool down quickly. I will look into a cover for the stovetop, that is a good idea.
We do not have a pantry; when we bought our house, construction was already complete, so we did not have any say in the layout or design.
Our microwave is above-stove, so he can't get in there (yet); I have turned it into the bread box/potato chip box/cookie storage. I am less concerned about him stealing food than I am right now about him (a) stealing and ingesting the packaging for the food when it is in the fridge/cabinet/garbage can and (b) him burning himself. I am just worried about what would have happened if he had been as sick as he was on saturday and we had been at work. Has anyone tried in-cabinet garbage cans?
We do have knobs on our cabinets, I've been leaving things like canned goods and spices and other ingreedients in glass jars on the lower shelves, and more interesting food on higher shelves. I have a trip to Lowes in my future this weekend for kitty proofing supplies. I really don't want to go the new stove route if I can avoid it; the one that came with the house is only a year old.
Mark, I can't imagine the touch pad stove! That sounds like a nightmare!
We have a gas stove, and the burners cool down pretty quickly, but the grills on top of them are cast iron. They do not cool down quickly. I will look into a cover for the stovetop, that is a good idea.
We do not have a pantry; when we bought our house, construction was already complete, so we did not have any say in the layout or design.
Our microwave is above-stove, so he can't get in there (yet); I have turned it into the bread box/potato chip box/cookie storage. I am less concerned about him stealing food than I am right now about him (a) stealing and ingesting the packaging for the food when it is in the fridge/cabinet/garbage can and (b) him burning himself. I am just worried about what would have happened if he had been as sick as he was on saturday and we had been at work. Has anyone tried in-cabinet garbage cans?
We do have knobs on our cabinets, I've been leaving things like canned goods and spices and other ingreedients in glass jars on the lower shelves, and more interesting food on higher shelves. I have a trip to Lowes in my future this weekend for kitty proofing supplies. I really don't want to go the new stove route if I can avoid it; the one that came with the house is only a year old.
